[Hiring] Senior Staff Product Designer @Wealthfront

Role Description

Wealthfront is looking for a Senior Staff Product Designer to help drive design for our Investing products, reporting to the Design Director for Self-Directed Investing. Building great financial products requires digging diligently into the details to address complex problems with elegant solutions. We’re seeking a designer who cares deeply about all aspects of a great product experience, from strategy to pattern to pixel.

Success in this role requires strong collaboration skills, the ability to think in scalable systems/platforms, and a high bar for craft & execution. A passion for investing or experience building consumer financial technology products is highly desirable.

This is a unique opportunity to be at the center of charting the next generation of technology innovation in investing products.

Key Responsibilities

• Create structure and drive outcomes for high-ambiguity, high-complexity work, including organizing and driving design sprints, upleveling strategy and craft, designing and delivering world-class designs.
• Become the go-to designer for investing initiatives, with an in-depth understanding of current and future endeavors.
• Use design to accelerate strategic decision-making by harnessing skills such as rapid prototyping and broad design exploration.
• Help innovate and scale as a company by partnering with leaders across Wealthfront.
• Uphold culture and team health by leading design-team wide initiatives, bolstering an inclusive environment, defining new patterns and processes to mature the design team.
• Ensure positive and productive collaboration by partnering with PM, ENG, research, data science, legal, compliance, and other designers to identify, prioritize, and ship high-impact opportunities across Investing products and Wealthfront.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience in a consumer software company.
• Experience working in consumer tech companies shipping exceptional quality products in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to communicate abstract design concepts visually and verbally in a clear and engaging manner to senior leaders and executives.
• A self-starter with the ability to manage multiple projects across teams and navigate ambiguity.
• Ability to think strategically and shape the user experience overall, beyond just design.
• Proven track record setting a vision for great customer experiences and ensuring your team ships high-quality experiences.
• Effectively use tools such as user experience methods, innovation, ideation, storytelling, prototyping, design frameworks, concept visualization, problem-framing skills, and design principles.
• Models a respectful, inclusive culture where debate is welcomed.
• Bonus: experience building modern fintech products.

Mindset that Excels at Wealthfront

• Someone who embraces complexity and loves engaging in intellectually rigorous discussions.
• Transforms ambiguity into clarity and navigates the organization to drive alignment.
• Consistently thinks about the company and team first and has the resilience to work through tough situations.
• Goes above and beyond to make others around them successful.
• Demonstrates high agency and comes to the table with proposals on how to improve.
• Deeply cares about learning and growing with the company.

Benefits

• Estimated annual salary: ~$240,000 plus generous equity and a discretionary bonus.
• Medical, vision, dental, 401K matching.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Generous time off and parental leave.
• Wellness reimbursements and professional development.
• Employee investing discount.
• And more!

Company Description

Here at Wealthfront, our mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions. We do this by leveraging technology to build powerful, low-cost, and easy-to-use financial products that help modern investors grow and manage their money.

• A Cash Account that offers one of the highest annual percentage yields on uninvested cash in the industry.
• Multiple automated investing portfolios managed for you and tailored for long-term wealth building.
• A zero-commission Brokerage Account with 8000+ stocks and ETFs.
• A digital-first mortgage experience designed to reduce costs and friction.